Jacques Médecin

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Jacques Médecin (born May 5, 1928 in Nice , † November 17, 1998 in Punta del Este , Uruguay ) was a French politician .

Life

The son of the legendary long-time mayor of Nice Jean Médecin was also an influential man for many decades. He gradually inherited his father's functions, ultimately also the mayor's office, which he held from 1966 to 1990, and he implemented an ambitious modernization program for Nice that was not undisputed, but still has an impact on the cityscape today (e.g. the Museum of Modern Art and the City motorway guided by stilts , now called Voie Pierre-Mathis ).

Médecin was a center-right man with sympathy for the political right . For example, he once declared that he would share 99.9 percent of the ideas with the Front National , called abortion murder, was a strict anti-communist and chose Cape Town as the sister city of Nice, which was seen as a gesture of support for the South African apartheid regime . The impulsive politician belonged to various political groups of the bourgeois camp, including the neo-Gaullist RPR , but like his father was and remained a personal opponent of Charles de Gaulle .

In the 1980s, rumors and suspicions against Jacques Médecin regarding financial malversations intensified. Graham Greene wrote a corresponding pamphlet against the Médecin system in Nice ( J'accuse- The Dark Side of Nice , 1982), but lost the libel trial that led to it, and his writing was banned in France. At the end of the 1980s, however, Médecin fell on the defensive. In the face of multiple legal allegations, he resigned from all his offices and fled to Uruguay. Charles Pasqua , the Nice-Matin newspaper and part of the population of Nice stayed on his side. Médecin received several years' imprisonment in the 1990s, but only a small part of them had to be served. Uruguay delivered Médecin to France. After his release, he spent the rest of his life in Uruguay.

The offices held by Jacques Médecin were

  • 1961–1990: Conseiller général for the Alpes-Maritimes department
  • 1966–1990: Mayor of Nice
  • 1967–1976 and 1978–1988: Member of Parliament for Alpes-Maritimes
  • 1976–1978: State Secretary for Tourism
  • 1973–1990: President of the General Assembly of Alpes-Maritimes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le Monde, April 13, 1990
  2. ↑ See Le Monde, January 8, 1992, May 18, 1995, August 5, 1995, January 12, 1996.

literature

  • Graham Greene: J'accuse. The Dark Sideof Nice , London 1982
personal data
SURNAME Médecin, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French local politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Nice
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1998
Place of death Punta del Este , Uruguay